The Indian cricket team would get into the groove for the short limited-overs series against Australia with a couple of warm-up games against a Western Australia XI at the WACA ground on Friday and Saturday. While the first match tomorrow is slated to be a T20 affair, the second match scheduled the day after will be a 50-over warm-up game […]
» Read moreAround 65 people were killed when a truck bomb hit a police training centre in the Libyan town of Zliten on Thursday, a hospital source said. Dozens more were injured in the attack, which happened as hundreds of recruits were gathering for a graduation ceremony.
» Read morePDP president Mehbooba Mufti is set to be the first woman Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, succeeding her father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed who passed away on Thursday, with party MLAs unanimously electing her as their leader and writing to Governor N N Vohra in this regard. A party delegation met the Governor at Raj Bhavan in Srinagar and handed […]
» Read morePutting the ball squarely in Pakistan’s court, India on Thursday linked the Foreign Secretary-level talks to Islamabad’s “prompt and decisive” action in the Pathankot terror attack for which it has provided “actionable intelligence”. New Delhi has also identified Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Maulana Masood Azhar, his brother Rauf, and two others as “handlers” behind the terror attack. Uncertainty prevails on talks scheduled […]
» Read moreVictoria Azarenka maintained her surge in form while the leading women on the tour are struggling with injuries or inconsistency at the start of the season, reaching the Brisbane International semifinals with a 6-1, 6-2 win over eighth-seeded Roberta Vinci. The two-time Australian Open champion has dropped just 10 games en route to the semis, where she’ll meet Samantha Crawford, […]
» Read moreUnder-fire Chris Gayle has sought the services of a leading Australian lawyer to start defamation proceedings against Fairfax Media over allegations that the West Indian cricketer indecently exposed himself to a woman in Sydney during the World Cup last year. The allegations came to the fore following Gayle’s widely-criticised live interview with Ten Sports’ female presenter Mel McLaughlin while playing […]
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